Chapter Thirty-Nine: Precious Metals Will Come on Their Own

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Most of the people who scolded them for losing power and humiliating the country were from the younger generations, and they couldn't hear it.

What is the difference between peace that can be bought with money and peace that can be made with money?

The annual coins given to them a year, there are not a thousand sets of Liuqiu porcelain worth money------ these words make the people on Liuqiu Island listen to the performance of lying guns, you are willing to give away money for nothing, you ask us to ask for porcelain to do, as if you can buy it immediately!

The war is really over temporarily, they signed a ten-year contract, everyone rejoice, the Tatars really retreated!

Zhang Guoan, the owner of the island, could not punish this Great Song Dynasty.

Cut off trade with it? Imposing an embargo on the sale of goods?

No, although Liuqiu Island can't kill itself, it's almost half dead.

Refusal of contact with their personnel, prohibition of entry of their personnel?

No, if Liuqiu Island does not have the labor of the Great Song Dynasty, it will have to waste time and experience to go to the coast of the northern region to catch it------ morality is not right, and the quiet level will not pass.

If the Liuqiu Navy came forward to rob female workers along the coast, it could be said that its ability was the first in the world, and no one dared to say that it was second.

Jing Jing once said very calmly: "What we do, we can see people in 20 years, and we can see ghosts in 100 years------ national security, do you want an upright army, or do you rely on being a bloody human trafficker to develop?" ”

Of course, he had to have an upright army, and he could allow his houseboys to openly rob the Tartars of their ill-gotten gains, and then use this to develop the local area or the Shandong Peninsula, and never allow them to rob the people's property or the people's daughters and the like.

There's a bottom line in everything you do.

Assassination, or beating up Pingzhang Jia like this old dog? Forget it, I didn't think about it, this is really angry to come up with it.

Zhang Guoan, the owner of the island, had to give up the idea of revenge and accept the reality.

The problem is that the current volume of the Great Song Dynasty is too large, with a total population of more than 100 million and an area of nearly 30 million square kilometers, and any revenge against him will be a harm to oneself------ as for smuggling to retaliate against them, it is a crooked way that cannot be done.

But to do things in the right way, you have to follow the rules, and if you do something without restraining yourself, it is not the right way!

When Wang Defa and Zhang Guoan were extremely drunk, they said that if they wanted to make counterfeit banknotes, it was a matter of minutes and seconds, and the small denominations must be more "true" than those produced by the Great Song Dynasty.

Da Song still stayed in woodblock printing, and Wang Defa patted his chest and said, I can make a steel version!

There are no more than three types of anti-counterfeiting marks on their banknotes: paper, pattern, and monogram.

First of all, the paper they use to print money is specially made, called "papermaking", which is processed from the bark of the tree as the main material.

Although this kind of paper is forbidden to be circulated among the people, and those paper-making workers are also supported and monitored by the government, they cannot change careers for the rest of their lives, so as to prevent them from moving to underground factories to provide paper for counterfeiters.

However, if there are many trees on Liuqiu Island, you don't want them, and the level of papermaking in the Great Song Dynasty can be compared with them?

Secondly, it is their pattern anti-counterfeiting, Song Dynasty banknotes single-sided color printing, rectangular, surrounded by patterns, in the middle is a government document or a historical story pattern, the face value is generally printed in the upper part of the middle, or 500 Wen, or consistent, or 10 Guan, 100 Guan.

However, they can only print with woodblocks, and almost every edition is different, which is undoubtedly a good opportunity to create counterfeit money, and how can you tell which year this is from 1260 to 1270?

Where do ordinary people or shops have the ability to discern?

Finally, there is the so-called monogram problem, that is, the kind of signature that looks like a book from heaven, like a kanji, but is not a kanji.

In different periods of Song Dynasty banknotes, the position of the monogram is different, some are printed on the four corners of the banknote, and some are printed on the center of the banknote.

This kind of monogram with personality is simply difficult to collect money, who can remember the position of the monogram in ten years, don't tell me you won't be old.

However, this ------ that cannot be done is detrimental to the integrity of the person.

After saying this, both fell to the ground drunk.

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In the early years of the Great Song Dynasty's southward movement, the Sichuan government arrested a criminal gang of more than 50 people, who specialized in printing counterfeit banknotes, and after being arrested, 300,000 counterfeit banknotes were found, each with a denomination of up to 1,000 guan and a minimum of 10 guan, and a large number of counterfeit banknotes printed by their hands have entered the market circulation.

The result of the government's handling: Originally, this criminal gang of more than 50 people had been sentenced to death, but the propaganda at that time made Zhang Jun have a whim:

Since they can make counterfeit banknotes that are difficult to distinguish between real and fake, they must also be able to make real money, so they let them go to the banknote printing factory to print real money, and they will be engaged in this business for the rest of their lives.

It's really unacceptable to kill more than 50 people at a time, but the law is there, and they actually changed their methods.

It can only be said that their Great Song Dynasty officials are rampant in human nature and indifferent to the spirit of the legal system.

They don't process counterfeit money from the Great Song Dynasty, however, they can issue their own currency!

The three of them discussed the issue of the equivalent of the issued currency for a long time, and this is very important.

Even the people of the Great Song Dynasty government began to understand that currency was closely related to materials and people's livelihood, and they did not dare to open up the printing, we can't be worse than them, and it is impossible to print paper money in the form of not forcing face to plunder the seigniorage of users.

In the end, they settled on it, measured in terms of precious metals as equivalents.

Originally, they wanted to measure the price of grain, mainly rice, and implement the grain standard, but there was too much rice produced in the entire Great Song Dynasty, and its output far exceeded that of Liuqiu Island.

What about cotton? It is also the same problem that the total output of Da Song cotton cloth soon surpassed itself, although they were nearly modern production and processing methods.

In the end, they honestly decided to use precious metals as the standard.

It's just that, in the same way as the whole world of this plane, they all regard copper as one of the precious metals.

Zhang Guoan, the owner of the island, and Wang Defa cheered each other up.

One said that we have the best stamping technology, and this level of delicacy is not comparable to the hammer they use in the West and the casting method in the Great Song Dynasty.

The other said that the corresponding banknote anti-counterfeiting, a simple watermark is enough, right?

After looking through the information, they decided that it was enough.

They divided their precious metal currency into three forms, gold, silver, and copper.

The price comparison between them is also positioned according to the market price of this time and space: one tael of gold = 10 taels of silver = 10 copper coins = 1000 copper coins.

However, their corresponding banknotes are also divided into three types: gold, silver and bronze, so that from their issuers, they can be easily converted, and banknotes of different denominations must be converted into corresponding precious metal heads.

Both of them have this confidence guarantee.

The most important reason here is really not that they have a sufficient amount of precious metals, but that they have a sufficient level of production capacity.

A set of stamped plate armor, or woven rope armor, even the simplest leather armor, are they precious metals?

Not in essence, however, the island of Liuqiu can stipulate that only precious metals can be bought!

Well, the precious metals themselves came, because these are good-selling goods. (To be continued.) )